Gainesville, Fl. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – When it comes to for-profit, private corporate incarceration of immigrants, making lots of money is like drinking […]
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The World’s Gaze is turning away from the Palestinians, but their Oppression hasn’t Changed
( Middle East Monitor ) – If there was only one tiny sliver of hope that emerged after the horrors that Israel inflicted on the […]
Palestinians are Mobilized in the face of Israeli Ethnic Cleansing
(Al-Shabaka ) – The ongoing Palestinian uprising against the Israeli settler-colonial regime in colonized Palestine did not begin in Sheikh Jarrah, the Palestinian neighborhood of […]
Structural racism: what it is and how it works, and why Critical Race Theory Explains it
By Vini Lander | – From the moment it was published, the UK’s Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparities’ report was met with a media […]
Israeli Forces Demolish Shop, Homes of Palestinians in Jerusalem’s Silwan, beginning Ethnic Cleansing Drive
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that on Tuesday evening, Israeli security forces cracked down on Palestinian protesters in Silwan […]
America wants to be known in Mideast as Champion of Free Speech, so Why is it Censoring Iranian Websites?
Oxford (Special to Informed Comment) – The Bureau of Industry and Security, an agency of the United States Department of Justice, in a statement on […]
Nuclear energy isn’t a safe bet in a warming world – here’s why
By Paul Dorfman | – ( The Conversation) – The overwhelming majority of nuclear power stations active today entered service long before the science of […]
What Price “Defense”? America’s Nearly $1.3 Trillion National Security Budget Isn’t Making Us Any Safer
By Mandy Smithberger and William Hartung | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – President Biden’s first Pentagon budget, released late last month, is staggering by any […]
Iraqi Shiite Militias hit back at US Bases in Syria after Biden Air Raids; Why does US have Bases in Syria? Why Hasn’t it Left Iraq?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al-Quds reports that Shiite militias in Syria fired several rockets or artillery shells at the US military base in the […]
Dear National Public Radio: The Stock Market is not the Economy– Tell us about Hunger and the Real Unemployment Rate
Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – I have a pet peeve with NPR. Why do so many of its top- of- the- hour […]